Oklahoma UFO Sightings in 2001

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Slowly moving red (then orange) flickering light joined for a time by a faster moving white light. At appx 11:40cst, I saw a fairly bright red light moving very slowly toward my location, appx north to south. I first assumed that this was normal air traffic (probably around 30-35 degrees above the northern horizon) but it was moving slower than what I thought was normal.

After a couple of minutes, I turned my head away for a couple of seconds and when I looked back at the light, there was a second light, white and not as bright moving from appx west to east at a faster, but not very fast speed. Had this been a 2-D screen, the second light would have been slightly below the red light. It did not seem to be moving fast enough for me NOT to have seen it before I turned my head, i.

e. it seemed to appear from nowhere. After about 30 seconds, the white light just went out.

This got me kind of excited and I continued to watch the red light which never blinked as much as it sort of flickered, now much closer to my location still moving VERY slowly. At times it seemed as though the light had come to a stop. As it continued moving toward to the south (now about 45 degrees off the horizon) I realized that it had become more copperish orange in color.

I am almost sure that it came to a stop and then began moving more easterly. It moved very slowly for maybe 20 seconds before in dimmed to the brightness of a dim star and then went out. I kept looking for about 2 more minutes before I decided it was not going to reappear and I had to go back inside (I was at work and was watching from the first floor roof of my job site, taking my coffee break checking out the sky as I always do on my overnight shift.

) The moon was somewhat overhead and could be seen fairly clearly through a thin clould layer. There was a slight ring around it and I could see a bright star, actually probably the planet Jupiter through this same thin cloud layer. There was a slight band of heavier clouds between the moon and where I saw the lights but I am 90% sure that the lights did not disappear behind any clouds.

((FOLLOW-UP COMMUNICATION)) The red (to orange)light moved in a straight line until just before it disappeared when it appeared to stop for a moment or two and then began heading east. (Again, the very slow speed of the object was, to me, very strange and what really kept my attention.) I agree that a white light moving slowly and then disappearing, under other conditions, would beg to be labeled a satellite, but the conditions at this location, in that direction and under these weather conditions was not right for a satellite.

One of my hobbies on weekend nights, when I do not work is to sit in my backyard and hope to see meteors. I have seen many satellites and I would bet the farm that this was not one. This light, though not blinding was at least as bright as Jupiter, considering that Jupiter was dimmed somewhat by the icy haze in the air.

It seemed too low in the sky to have been a satellite and the fact that it appeared so suddenly and so close to the red light (probably two to three fingers width at arms length "lower" than the red light) was at best very coincidental. The location I was at is just not conducive to seeing satellites. One cannot even see stars that low in the sky facing north.

Its just too close to downtown Tulsa. Too much light. Of course, I could be wrong.

Thanks again. ((name deleted)) in OKlahoma PS Say hi to Jeff for me next time you are on the show.

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Large slow moving cluster of fire balls with orange tails. Many reports to local news station but no specific answer. There were speculations of space trash rentering the earths atmosphere, but if that was true why did they move so slow and stay in the sky for a good 7 to 8 minutes? ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that the correct date for the reported incident is December 05, 2001, the day a piece of Russian space debris burned up over the Midwest.

We have amended the date here. PD)).

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5 lights with orange trails In the west sky were 5 lights flying north. All lights had orange streaks eminating from the rear except for the leading light. One streak seemed to be at an angle towards the ground for a time.

Each light was traveling at the same speed relative to one another. This made it appear as if it could have been one object with lights on the corners. It appeared as if the color between the lights was darker than the background of the sky.

There was no aircraft sound. One of the fainter lights were blue. After the formation flew a few miles north, it began to turn east and out of sight.

A police officer was in the parking lot behind us. He told us it was fighter planes with their after-burners on. I suppose this could be true but I work outside at night and I've never seen anything like it before.

((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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Possibly a satelite re-entering the atmosphere? While driving to work, traveling north on highway 177, south of Perkins OK @ approximately 10:30 PM December 1, 2001. There were several bright objects with long tails which appeared low in the western sky, which was outside the drivers side pickup window. These objects are best described as a group of slow motion shooting stars with bright tails, only closer.

These, 5 to 6 objects appearing in the west, low in the horizion, was the closest distance to the observer, these objects were maintaining the same pattern as they moved from the drivers left, across the north bound path of the driver, this would be a north-easterly direction coming from the drivers left rear and crossing directly across the drivers front windshield. The pattern and spacing of the objects were the width of a hand held @ arms length. The length of the "tails" or streaks of light were approximately four times the width of the pattern, or a distance of one foot @ that same arms length distance.

The initial sighting was outside the drivers door window and the objects were within this viewing window. The objects kept a low profile or low distance which could be viewed without bending down to view from inside a pickup truck. The color of the light was white.

It has been learned that a satelite re-entered the atmosphere? ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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At least 14 lights followed by an orange tail flew across the sky last night in formaiton, emitting no sound. UFOS? Last night at approximately 10:30p.m.

central time a friend and I were outside and saw a formation of at least 14 ufos flying across the sky in formation. They were flying pretty low, but there was no sound heard from them. Each one appeared to be a bright light followed by a bright fiery orange tail.

It took them a minute or less to fly out of sight never breaking formation. They were flying over Sapulpa, OK and towards Tulsa. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs.

(Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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One large cigar-shaped craft surrounded by hundreds of smammer crafts all with long trails. What appeared to be two aircraft approached from the southeast sky. As it neared, the masses veered to the north more and we saw what appeared to be one large cigar-shaped unit with lights throughtout and red at the back end.

This extremely large unit was completely surrounded by hundreds of small units. They all had very long white trails. It was almost like watching hundreds of meteors in slow motion.

We watched them until they went out of sight. They were traveling at about the same speed as a plane. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs.

(Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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letting dogs out to do duty for night. I looked in sky and noted five lights moving horizontally toward the north. Lights changed color from white to blue to red.

((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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String of firey lights in formation moving across the NE corner of Okla. Sighted while outside near the Eucha Lake dam. At aprox.

10:15 pm . There wear two bright lights connected by a dim light and followed by at least a dozen smaller lights leaving bright firey tails all moving in a straight formation moving from the southeast towards the northwest. very uniform movement low in the horizon but maintaining a steddy altitude at a very high rate of speed.

Very bright lite up the whole sky. consumed about 1/3 of the visible sky from our position. The lead light was a yellow and green the trailing and joining lights in the formation were bight orange leaving long firey tails.

The formation was like a "Y" flying sideways across the sky.( >-) reached across the entire horizon. looked like It was moving through clouds but sky was clear, very clear.

((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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Single light becomes multiple sustained lights moving from South to North across Northeast Oklahoma Sky. My wife and I were driving west on a rural road towards town. The road is hilly and offers a decent view of Tulsa and the surrounding area.

I had noticed a single light (what I casually thought was a low-flying small plane) to the south-southwest. The light was sustained and did not pulse. It didn't occur to me that it should be blinking, because not long after I saw the light, my wife exclaimed that the "object" had just emitted or split into several lights.

At least one central light suddenly became 5. One in middle and 4 or more around it kind of in a staggered formation. My first thought was that it was a formation of helecopters or F-16s (Air Guard has a squadron of both within 30 miles of the area).

The lights did not pulse, however. They were sustained. There was a main glow to the lights and a slight streaking or trail.

We slowed to observe the object as it passed across or field of view from South to North. As it passed the lights seemed to glow with different colors (Orange to Red, Green to Blue, and Gold). It was hard to get a good view of what the exact shape of the object(s) were.

However, we were able to make out what seemed to be an outline of the central object. It looked tubular (almost like an airliner fuselage or a missle). The central object's outline looked much longer than any commercial or military aircraft (I've seen C-5s up close and this looked bigger).

We slowed enough to role down our windows and listen.no sound from where we were. The objects seemed kind of "hazy" and yet were pronounced enough to see points in the sky in addition to the presumed outline of the main body.

We watched as the objects moved to the North out of our view. From the backside, it seemed that the lights had more of a green hue than orange or gold. Although our vantage point may have been poor to determine altitude, it really seemed like not more than 10,000 feet.

It seemed like it was an object that would land (rather than crash) because the nose seemed to be pointed upward from the tail as it traveled from South to North. We went home and immediately tried calling News Stations (all busy). I reached the Air National Guard after hours Security Office who referred me to the Tulsa International Airport Tower Security.

TUL stated that it was a Satellite that fell out of orbit and crashed in Kansas. That was mindboggling as we had seen the objects less than 10 minutes before and we are 70 miles south of the Kansas line. The objects certainly did not seem to be traveling fast enought to descend and crash somewhere in Kansas.

That's neither here nor there. Nevertheless, KJRH News reported it in the news broadcast as a crashing satellite. KOTV News reported it as "space junk.

" KTUL didn't report it until Sunday, December 2, 2001 as a Russian SL-12 Rocket re-entering the atmosphere. KTUL said it probably did not crash to the ground, but burned up before it hit the ground. KTUL went on to clarify that if the object did hit the ground, it probably crashed somewhere in Kansas.

If so, I want to see pictures of the crash site. I want to know what satellite or rocket it was, and why it's crashing over U.S.

soil. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001.

Please see following URL for details: .

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Rectangle. ((NUFORC Note: Witness provides a minimum amount of information about his sighting. We presume he is alluding to the re-entry event of a Russian SL-12 rocket casing, that was reported from many points in the Midwest U.

S. PD)).

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close stationary cluster of lights; strobes,solid,and beams,with No solid object noted. We were travelling west on I44,wife was driving and woke me to view lights in sky to the northwest of us. They seemed to be very close,guessing less than a mile.

They appeared to be stationary with large spot or floodlight shining from center of cluster to the left or west.The lights gave the appearance of different size tails but were definitely not tails, they were light beams, as landing lights on an aircraft. The scene was definitely not a returning piece of space junk.

It didn't appeal to me to be anything but some sort of a military manuever.Looked like an area of refueling helicopters. We didn't stop moving,and it appeared that the lights were still in the sky and we were passing them.

From the passenger seat of our rig,I counted out loud ,6or7 red strobe lights,along with an indeterminate number of green,white and orange lights in no particular pattern.We were moving about 70 mph,and they were in sight about 4 mins. from 30deg.

in front to about 15 deg behind us and to the right. My wife saw them about 30 sec longer than I did.At arms length,they appeared to be about 12" to 14"in length,and about 7" to 9" high.

They appeared close because of the clarity of the strobes and we seemed to be passing them and the pattern appeared to change noticeably in perspective. Another driver getting to OK city about 10 mins behind us told of seeing the scene accelerate "fantastically" ,but we saw no such movement.Must have happened after we passed by.

((NUFORC Note: Probably a space debris re-entry. Please see other reports. PD)) ((UPDATE SUBMITTED 01DE02 BY ORIGINAL WITNESS)) update on OK.

sighting 12/01 this is an update to the above sighting -- As there seemed to be no craft involved, just a series of mismatched lights, there have been several possibilities as to just what we saw// == About the first of Nov. we were travelling north on the turnpike in OK, just north of Tulsa,around dusk, and crossing the navigation channel, I looked west along the channel and saw anchored on the north shore a large barge. It had misc.

red,green and strobe lights on it and TWO large spot lights mounted on a mast,about 1/3 the way along the craft. the spots were different sizes and mounted above each other but both facing straight ahead. This scene,if reproduced as a hologram and projected skyward, would have duplicated exactly what we saw in Dec.

It would explain how the "object" could have moved at a fantastic rate,as was told by another witness, just by turning the 'projector'from side to side, and then shutting off the power, to make it disappear altogether. This explanation , for me, at least gives me a sense of possibility. This setup could be used by anyone ( government included) to create at least a diversion that could be moved even electronically,from place to place to be seen by as many different people as the perpetrator wished.

((END)) ((NUFORC NOTE: Please see other reports for this date. We believe the lights observed were fragments of a re-entering Russian missile hull. Probably not a holographic projection, we believe.

PD)).

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My wife and i let my dog out at 1. I was looking at the stars like i always do when i let my dog out and i saw an unusually bright star outside way brighter then the rest of the stars. it took me a second to realize it was moving i pointed to my wife and it took her a second to realize it was moving too then it did i u turn unlike any airplane i have seen it has no red warning lights flashing.

Then it stopped just sat there in the sky floating there. we weren't inside to get our roommate and our phone after we went outside it was gone,.

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Small, round, white light floated in all directions, increased speed toward NW, now appeared to have lights on it like an airplane Location: Chickasaw State Park, OK. >From the south I observed what appeared to be a small, round, white light moving fairly slowly in all directions. At first it was behind trees but then it increased it's altitude and moved above the trees.

I thought it was no more than 100 yds. away. Another witness thought it was no closer than 1 mile.

At first it's movement was slow and steady, moving toward the west while traveling up and down. It looked more like it was floating as apposed to flying (at first). After a minute or two, it picked up speed moving toward the west or northwest.

At this point, I grabbed my binoculars and lost visual contact for a few seconds. When I found it in my binoculars, it was traveling at a high rate of speed and had a flashing red light on it's "tail" like an airplane. One of the witnesses confirmed that I was indeed still observing the same object.

It now moved and looked like an airplane. I couldn't see wings or anything like that but like I said, it now had a flashing red light on it's "tail." When the red light would blink, the front portion of the object appeared to have a slight tint of yellow to it.

I noticed that I could hear a jet in the far distance but have no idea if it was coming from an actual airplane or from this object.

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2 bright lights with sparkling trails moving in figure 8 pattern I was called outside at approx 7:00pm CST on Friday Oct 26th to look at something in the sky. At first glance I thought the 2 lights looked like a plane, another person said it's a comet, I kept looking and watching the objects with 6 other people. They were white in color left a sparkling trail behind them and were moving in a figure 8 pattern.

I watched the objects cross each other in the pattern 4 times. They continued to move in the pattern and descended in altitude untill some trees blocked our line of sight. The direction that we were facing was NE.

I also during this time witnessed an aircraft under them moving from East to North, when the craft passed the Left object/light it did a 180 and started moving back the way it came. The "UFO's" were much brighter than the aircraft and much larger in size. I did not hear any sound of engines.

The "ufos" were not moving in any direction other than a loss in altitude.

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multiple crafts as they were orchestraiting something there were several larger crafts with green and red lights turning they were moving together in the background20-50smaller crafts would bounce from place to place they would apear to merge even others were like seeing a end of a jet engine i could see them all through the sky especialy with my infrared scope awesome experience ((NUFORC Note: Witness describes self as a professional in the medical field. PD)).

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two lights one revolved around the other, and emitted a blue flairlike object. my name is Jon Scott what i saw was two lights about one fingers width apart in the southern sky, as i watched the light on the right side began to revolve counter clockwise around the other, they may have both been revolving for all i know, but that is how it seemed. all of asudden a blue flair like objectshot out from one of the lights, or possibly both , at aproximatly the 8:00 position.

then the object, or objects, sped off, at about a 45 degree angle.about 2:00 relative to the position of the objects initialy. altus has an airforce base, i have seen transports, trainers, even the shuttle piggy back on a jet, but i have never seen anything that resembled this.

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Silvery triangle object in Oklahoma skies I was changing the price signs on gas pumps where I work, in Woodward, Oklahoma when something caught my eye. There was a silvery triangle shaped object going from west to east, much faster than any jet could. As I watched, it stopped in mid-air without slowing, stopped, turned invisible to my eyes, anyhow, and went back west at an incredible rate of speed.

As I watched, it stopped in midair again, and dropped straight down towards the ground and became invisible before landing, or going wherever it went. Maybe five minutes afterwards, there was an incredibily loud sonic boom. A few minutes later, there were two more sonic booms.

The triangle shaped object, which was reflective and silvery looking, made no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Second report from same witness. PD)).

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Silvery triangle in Oklahoma skies.changes directions instantly this sighting was made the morning of sept 19th about 9:30 in the morning. I was changing the price signs on the gas pumps at the travel center where I work in Woodward Oklahoma.

As I was taking down the old signs, something caught my eye in the sky. I looked to see a huge silvery triangle traveling at an impossibly fast speed going from west to east. It stopped in mid-air, without slowing, became invisible for a couple seconds, then sped off west.

It stopped, again- mid-air, without slowing, then dropped straight down out of the sky then became invisible once more. Following this, I heard a very loud sonic boom and heard the roar of a jet, but did not see a jet. A short time after that, I heard two more sonic booms.

Thank You for having a site where we can share these things. ((NUFORC Note: One of three reports of same incident from same witness. We have altered the time of the incident here so that it conforms to what he reports elsewhere.

PD)).

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Disk shaped UFO shoots out of pink cloud in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I was on the front lawn, facing southwest, and noticed a strange looking cloud in the sky, just above the top of the houses across the street, so it wasn't directly overhead. It was pink and golden colored, unlike the white clouds in the rest of the sky.

Suddenly a large disk shaped object came out of the cloud. It was silver looking, then went VERY bright, like a golden neon light. It hovered there for a few seconds, then shot off horizontally to the west, too fast for me to even follow with my eyes.

I've never seen a UFO before so this was really exciting to see!.

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Large silver object hovering in N Horizon with 2 white lights side by side. Took off in steep climb I walked out of my office near Tulsa Intl. Airport (I am S/W of the airport—maybe 3 miles away to S & 1 mile W of airport).

I immediately noticed a really bright & large silver object with two really bright spotlight looking white circle lights side by side, it was hovering in the lower horizon straight N. It looked like it had an erie glow all around it, it was huge. I watched it for 2 mins.

It just hovered in same spot. I kept turning around looking for coworkers to come out & everytime I looked at it—it had not moved. Then finally a coworker came out & he finally saw it & not long after that it took off almost streight up to a very steep climb to the West & was gone really quick.

(It was a really high climb & a steep angle climb for a usual airplane to make). It also left a contrail at about a 60° angle. Living & working close to the airport I am used to seeing airplanes at all altitudes & all kinds.

That WAS NO AIRPLANE. With all the maddness going on, could have been military servelance of some kind that I've never seen. Don't know.

My boss also saw a strange happening about 2 hours later off hwy. 75 (which is a lot of miles to the West of where I saw this thing) he was going north about 8:00. It was dark & he said he noticed something in sky really bright with lights similar to an airplane but knew it was no airplane & kept watching it—it also seemed to hover & flying erraticaly Going N then S then suddenly making really strange turns that a normal airplane could not make.

He pulled off road & got out of car looking at it & it took off really quick. (I would guess he saw same thing only 2 hours later in the dark).